Changing background color of Ionic ion-item in CSS

Question

I have added the following code style=\"background-color: #C2A5A5 !important. But that has not worked for me. how can I add background color to ion-item?Thank

Answer 1

A workaround is using tag instead of tag, for example: change to and then style it with whatever you want.

Source: http://ionicframework.com/docs/components/#item-icons